The Screenplays And Films Of Quentin Tarantino Raise Profound Comic And Ethical Dilemmas. Developing Ideas From Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Botting And Wilson Explore Ethical Issues In Relation To Tarantino's Work, Postmodernity And Recent Cultural Theory. They Argue That Tarantino's Texts Provide A Provocative And Telling Contribution To Theorised Accounts Of Contemporary Culture. The Term 'tarantinian' Has Been Coined To Refer To A Set Of Sampled, Self-authorizing Signs That Are Cinematically Assembled In Processes Of 'consuming-producing-expending' In The General Context Of A Postmodern Capitalism That Enjoins Excess. The Tarantinian Ethics Are Elaborated, In The Midst Of A Homogenized Fast-food, Movie And Video Culture, In Relation To Heterogeneous Events Of Violence, Horror And Laughter. The Book Illuminates And Interrogates Contemporary Structures Of Identity, Desire And Consumption. It Will Be Of Great Interest To Students Of Cultural Studies, Social Theory And Communication.--jacket. The Ethics Of Personality -- The Ethics Of Professionalism -- The Ethics Of Romance -- The Ethics Of Consumption -- The Ethics Of Horror. Fred Botting And Scott Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [179]-183) And Index.

Botting, Fred; Wilson, Scott, 1962-

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

AltaMira Press

Corwin Press

Theory, culture & society, 1. publ, London u.a, 2001

United States, United States of America

London, 2000

1, PT, 2001

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index.

The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, Botting and Wilson explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantinos work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantinos texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture. The term `Tarantinian has been coined to refer to a set of sampled, self-authorizing signs that are cinematically assembled in processes of `consuming-producing-expending in the general context of a postmodern capitalism that enjoins excess. The Tarantinian ethics are elaborated, in the midst of a homogenized fast-food, movie and video culture, in

The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the authors explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino′s work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino′s texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture.

Using ideas from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the authors explore notions of ethics and postmodernity in relation to the work of Quentin Tarantino and a number of other contemporary filmmakers and writers

186 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index

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